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What are the elements of battery?

(2) Intent to cause harmful or offensive contact (to reasonable person or knowledge of sensitivities) OR to cause fear of such contact. The test for intent is subjective. Did individual desire to cause harm or offense?. . . intent is satisfied either by (1) act done w/ substantial certainty contact will result or (2) an act done with the purpose to cause the contact; an individual could be (1) playing a joke or (2) intending to assault and still commit a battery.

(3) Harmful or offensive Contact – to the plaintiff or something so close to the plaintiff. . . could be touching (e.g. a wire set for someone to trip on could be contact, a chair, clothing). Offensive/harmful to reasonable person. Does not matter if the individual is harmed or offended. . . . as long as the reasonable person would be.

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